Astragalus cimae

Cima milkvetch

Family: Fabaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Cima milkvetch is a California native perennial herb found in desert regions at elevations of unspecified height. Flowering from an unspecified period, this plant produces red-purple flowers with white or pale tips, with banner petals 12 to 15 millimeters long. Growing with spreading stems 2 to 25 centimeters tall, it has a somewhat coarse and fleshy structure. Its leaves are 4.5 to 11 centimeters long, composed of 11 to 23 leaflets that are obovate to nearly round, with obtuse or notched tips. The fruit develops in an ascending to spreading orientation with an oblong body and a stalk-like base 5 to 12 millimeters long.

California counties: San Bernardino, Inyo

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